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Fire Quotes

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

John B. S. Haldane

God Great Fire Flying Insult Been

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes. I had a lot of energy as a child - sometimes too much - and I didn't know how to channel it. It was making me suffer. It was bigger than myself, and I was very young.

Fear Myself Fire Pain Child Me

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Freedom Fire Fight Crime Never Well

I'm sure people see me as quiet and someone who keeps things to himself a little bit. I might be quiet, but there's a lot of fire inside me, and hopefully people see that sometimes.

Fire People Me Someone Quiet See

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

George Washington

Fire Spark Alive Labor Conscience

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

Good Fire Lie Real Reason Out

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

Jennifer Granholm

Fire People Accountability Feet Need

To be clear, I don't know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity as the tobacco industry. We don't have enough information to make that conclusion. Perhaps it's all smoke and no fire. But there's an awful lot of smoke.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Fire Enough Information Smoke Know

The first rock record I ever bought was 'Great Balls of Fire.' I was real little, and I went to Atlanta to get it.

Great Fire Atlanta Rock Balls First

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Rain Light Fire Sky Sun

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Fire Door You Why Smell Catch

When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.

Fire Political Look Why More Going

A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don't have to decide whether you like it, and you don't really have to sit down and think about it much after you're done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind.

Fire Wind Listening Song Think You

I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.

Shantel VanSanten

Family Fire I Am Parent Talking Am

I grew up during the war years in a tiny cottage with no electricity. Water for washing was pumped from a pond. My brother and I had to fetch drinking water from a tap at the end of the lane, and light was from candles, paraffin lamps, and our nightly log fire.

Light Water Fire War Brother End

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Love Light Fire Spark Heaven Earth

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Frederick Douglass

Nature Light Fire Storm Gentle Need

Remember that input is as important as output. Take in something for inspiration, to relight the fire inside you, and ideas on how to fix whatever isn't working in your writing will usually follow.

Fire Ideas Writing Remember You Fix

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Light Fire Parents People Acting

That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.

Great Fire Earth Now Matter Dead

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

Love Romantic Fire Death Moon Song

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

Fire Me Worry Now Will Never

I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.

Money Fire Waiting Better Loss Back

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

Father Fire Lighting Baptist Just

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